BENJAMIN NETANYAHU PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL, MY
COUNTRY, HE SPOKE TO THE UNITED NATIONS TODAY AND HE SAID
SOME INTERESTING THINGS.
HE DID SOME BACKPEDALING.
HE CAME TO CONDEMN THE IRAN DEAL.
WHAT HE SAID WAS REALLY INTERESTING.
HE SAID AFTER DAYS OF LISTENING TO WORLD LEADERS, CHECK
YOUR ENTHUSIASM AT THE DOOR.
HE SAID IRAN IS DANGEROUS AND WE HAVE GIVEN THEM ACCESS TO
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS ñ THE
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
RECOGNIZES THAT IRAN IS SO DANGEROUS.
IF IRAN DOESN'T CHANGE ITS BEHAVIOR, IT WILL BECOME
EVEN MORE DANGEROUS.
THE MOST IMPORTANT CONSTRAINTS WILL STILL BE AUTOMATICALLY
LIFTED BY YEAR 10 OR 15.
IT MAY NOT SOUND LIKE MUCH, BUT THAT IS A CHANGE WHERE HE
IS SAYING I GOT IT, IT'S A DEAL.
HE WAS ALSO IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE FACT THAT THE DEAL IS
ON THE BOOKS.
I THINK THAT IS PROGRESS.
WHEN HE CAME OUT TO GIVE HIS SPEECH, THERE WAS APPLAUSE.
THEY GAVE HIM THE NORMAL AMOUNT OF APPLAUSE.
THEN NORMALLY WHEN THERE IS SILENCE YOU BEGIN YOUR SPEECH.
BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT HAPPENED.
HERE'S BENJAMIN NETANYAHU IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE
APPLAUSE STOPS.
SPEAK, SPEAK, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SPEAK.
PUT THE GLASSES ON.
NO, I'M GONNA TAKE THE GLASSES OFF.
WHAT IS HE DOING?
WHAT JUST HAPPENED?
IS THAT HIS WAY OF INTIMIDATING THOSE WHO AGREE WITH THE
IRAN DEAL?
IT MADE ME UNCOMFORTABLE.
WE DO A LIVE SHOW AND THEN WE CLIP THINGS OUT TO BE PUT
ON YOUTUBE.
IF WE DIDN'T CARE AT ALL ABOUT THE LIVE SHOW, THAT'S WHAT
WE MIGHT DO.
HE DOESN'T CARE AT ALL ABOUT THE AUDIENCE IN THE ROOM WITH HIM.
HE REMINDED ME OF PUTIN.
I CAN SEE PUTIN DOING THAT.
OKAY, HE WASN'T DONE NOT SPEAKING.
NOT SPEAKING WAS A HUGE PART OF HIS SPEECH.
HERE HE IS GETTING INTO THE IRAN DEAL, CONDEMNING THE IRAN
DEAL, REMINDING EVERYONE THAT WE ARE CONCEDING TO IRAN 70
YEARS AFTER THE END OF WORLD WAR II.
THAT WAS HIS SET UP AS HE LED INTO HIS BIG MOMENT.
HERE'S THE SETUP.
IRAN'S RULERS PROMISED TO DESTROY MY COUNTRY, MURDER
MY PEOPLE, AND THE RESPONSE FROM THIS BODY, THE RESPONSE
FROM NEARLY EVERY ONE OF THE GOVERNMENTS REPRESENTED
HERE HAS BEEN ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
UTTER SILENCE.
DEAFENING SILENCE.
OKAY, DEAFENING SILENCE, THAT IS HIS THING.
I'M PRETTY SURE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT IRAN.
THE SANCTIONS WERE THERE, IT WAS NOT DEAFENING SILENCE.
THEN HE ENDED WITH DEAFENING SILENCE.
THEN TO MAKE A POINT, HE IS GOING TO USE HIS OWN
SILENCE TO MAKE A POINT.
WE WILL WARN YOU, AS YOU ALL KNOW AT THE UNITED NATIONS
THERE IS A 45 SECOND TALK CLOCK.
THE CLOCK WAS ON AND IT WAS DRAMATIC AS TO WHETHER
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU WOULD BE THE UN TALK CLOCK.
DEAFENING SILENCE.
AND THERE'S THE CLOCK.
THE WORLD IS A BUSIER PLACE.
THEY MOVED UP TO 45 SECONDS A FEW YEARS AGO.
WILL HE BEAT THE CLOCK?
DID I TURN OFF THE OVEN?
NOW IT'S JUST AN NBA SHOT CLOCK?
LET'S BE SILENT FOR FIVE SECONDS AND HEAR WHAT PEOPLE
LISTEN.
12 SECONDS LEFT, HE'S STILL NOT TALKING.
THERE'S ONLY FIVE SECONDS LEFT ON THE SHOT CLOCK.
IT WILL REACH ZERO.
SPEAK, SPEAK.
HE MADE IT, THANK GOD.
SUCH A RELIEF.
THAT IT WAS GOING TO BE A TURNOVER.
I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO SAY TO THAT.
IT WAS OBVIOUSLY SOME SORT OF STRATEGY TO DRIVE HIS POINT
HOME.
BUT IT DISTRACTED FROM HIS MESSAGE.
I APPRECIATE A GOOD AWKWARD SILENCE, BUT THIS IS THE UN.
YOU HAVE TO MOVE IT ALONG.
THANKFULLY HE SPOKE.
CAN WE HAVE A TALK CLOCK AT TYT?
BUT IT'S ONLY TO HELP PEOPLE STOP TALKING AFTER 45 SECONDS.
LET'S ESTABLISH IT.
TO FINISH NETANYAHU, WHATEVER HIS POINT WAS.
IT'S GETTING A LOT OF GOOD COVERAGE.
HIS POINT WAS MADE.
IT'S ALL OVER THE PLACE.
I DON'T LIKE THE WEIRD AWKWARD SILENCE.
IT MIGHT'VE SOUNDED GOOD ON PAPER, BUT I GET THE POINT
THAT HE WAS TRYING TO MAKE.
I BELIEVE THAT HE HAS THE WRONG POLICY.
I THINK THIS DEAL WILL ACTUALLY MAKE ISRAEL SAFER, BUT HE'S
GOING TO DO WHAT HE THINKS HE HAS TO DO.
I BELIEVE HE IS SPREADING MISINFORMATION ABOUT THE
LACK OF DISCUSSION THAT HAS GONE ON IN THE U.S., WHICH DOES
EXIST.
INDEPENDENTS BELIEVE THAT IT WILL MAKE THEM SAFER.
NETANYAHU'S MAJOR CRITICISM OF THE IRAN DEAL IS THAT IN 10
YEARS AFTER CERTAIN ELEMENTS OF THIS DEAL ARE NO LONGER
INTACT, IRAN WILL BE ABLE TO DEVELOP THEIR NUCLEAR
PROGRAM AND WEAPONS AND ISRAEL WILL BE IN A LOT OF TROUBLE.
WHAT MAKES HIM THINK THAT AT THAT POINT, SHOULD IRAN
START DOING THAT THAT THE U.S WOULDN'T STEP IN?
THE U.S.
ALREADY STEPPED IN WITH THEIR NUCLEAR PROGRAM.
HE ACKNOWLEDGED IN HIS SPEECH THAT HE CONTINUES TO SEE
BARACK OBAMA AND THE UNITED STATES AS HIS STRONGEST ALLY.
LET ME TELL YOU WHAT HIS FEAR IS.
WE WILL BE RIGHT BACK.